About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL

I'm looking to do the same thing. I want to work for myself but I'm nervous about not getting enough calls to make ends meet. I know I need a state license and probably a local license, some business insurance and what not. How do you guys get service calls? Advertisements online? Phone book? Newspaper? I was thinking of starting out with ads on Craigslist, build a simple website for information on my business, then maybe advertise in the Pennysaver. I dont want to do warranty work because I do that now for the blue idiots and it's a nightmare. I really want to do this on my own.

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LowSL215+ Years of Professional Appliance Repair ExperienceFormer $ears/a$e tech

My brother has an appliance repair business and he will sometimes run an ad for free pick up of appliances. He gets a lot of service calls off this ad. Plus if your just starting out then you'll have a lot of different appliances to part out and troubleshoot. Put some business card at the post office and bulletin boards. Yellow pages works for me.

The economy is slow, and showing no signs of getting back to normal, so you don't get as many calls off the same amount of advertising. The yellow page people want just as much money, but they are not kicking back as many customers as they used to, so they need to lower their prices.